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  • Bibliography:
    6 Books
  • First Book:
    January 2012
  • Latest Book:
    September 2020
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Book List in Order: 6 titles



  • Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent chill between his parents, who fight over things he i...



  • From the Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama and author of Homeland Elegies, a "sparkling and combustible" play about identity in America after September 11 (Bloomberg). "Everyone has been told that politics and religion are two subjects that should be o...



  • The Pulitzer prize-winning author of "Disgraced" explores the conflict that erupts within a Muslim family in Atlanta when an independent-minded daughter writes a provocative novel that offends her more conservative father and sister. Zarina has a...



  • A chilling examination of how far we will go to survive and the consequences of the choices we make. In remote Pakistan, Nick Bright awaits his fate. A successful financial trader, Nick is kidnapped by an Islamic militant group, but with no one ne...



  • A fast-paced economic thriller that probes the financial deal making behind the mergers and acquisitions boom of the 1980s The Deal. The Board Room. The Takeover. This is the battleground where titanic egos collide, where modern day kings are mad...



  • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and author of American Dervish, an American son and his immigrant father search for belonging -- in post-Trump America, and with each other. A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ayad Akhtar has published 6 books.

Ayad Akhtar does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Homeland Elegies, was published in September 2020.

The first book by Ayad Akhtar, American Dervish, was published in January 2012.

No. Ayad Akhtar does not write books in series.